Lay welcome mat for new houses
North Carolina began the decade with too many consumers chasing too few housing units. Despite recent construction, we aren’t adding enough housing stock.
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Venom-spitting cobra scare fuels the ‘just do something’ crowd
Politicians responding quickly to a crisis can enact policies with unintended consequences.
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Merit pay boosts student success
Most non-educators believe teacher pay ought to vary according to demonstrable performance. Most public-school teachers dislike this idea.
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NC Policy Watch skews education study in favor of preferred politics
It is too often the case that media outlets will cite a research paper, cherry-pick information, and make misleading claims about what the findings entail. Unfortunately, this is precisely what our friends at NC Policy Watch have done in their recent piece about a study from Duke University Sanford…
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Let the science decide on PFAS in water
Saying “per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances” is a mouthful—so let’s stick with the common abbreviation for this group of man-made chemicals: PFAS. And no, you don’t want a mouthful of them. If consumed in high concentrations, PFAS may be harmful to human health. But we don’t know how high a concentration…
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Will 2022 midterms be 1994 like tidal wave?
Conventional wisdom holds that the political party in the White House tends to lose seats in mid-term elections. Yet, 1994 turned into a proverbial bloodbath for Democrats. Tom Foley became the first U.S. House Speaker to lose his bid for re-election since the American Civil War. His defeat was part…
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Mark Twain and Andrew Breitbart ponder curated resentment theory
If you raft on the river of popular culture, then you can hardly do better than to hire Mark Twain and Andrew Breitbart as your guides. One man lived long enough to become the elder statesman of American letters by 1910, and the other died young in 2012, but both…
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To do good or do better
History is full of examples of governments generating both benefits and costs for their citizens that no one intended – or even could have intended.
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Update: Legislature and the N.C. School Athletics Association working on a deal
Update: Key legislators confirm for Carolina Journal they completed a more than two-hour closed-door meeting with the North Carolina High School Athletics on Wednesday, July 18th, 2021. The legislators tell Carolina Journal the meeting went better than expected and they believe a deal will be reached over the next few…
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Claims about disproportionate benefits fall flatter than the flat tax
A leading left-wing advocacy group offers groundless criticism of the N.C. Senate's tax reform plan.